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ABC News/Washington Post Inflation Poll, March 1981 (ICPSR 8012)

Principal Investigator(s):ABC News; The Washington Post

Summary:

This special-topic poll is part of a continuing series of
monthly surveys that solicit public opinion on the presidency and on a
range of other political and social issues. This data collection
focused on inflation and attitudes toward President Ronald Reagan's
economic proposals. Respondents were asked to pinpoint the possible
causes of inflation. They were questioned about the Reagan
administration's spending cuts and who they thought would benefit from
them. Respondents were ... (more info)

This special-topic poll is part of a continuing series of
monthly surveys that solicit public opinion on the presidency and on a
range of other political and social issues. This data collection
focused on inflation and attitudes toward President Ronald Reagan's
economic proposals. Respondents were asked to pinpoint the possible
causes of inflation. They were questioned about the Reagan
administration's spending cuts and who they thought would benefit from
them. Respondents were also asked to elaborate specifically on the
impact of inflation on their spending habits, and if inflation
prevented them from buying new cars, homes, or taking vacations. Some
additional questions were asked about prize fighting. Demographic
information collected on respondents includes age, race, sex,
religion, number of children, and occupation.

Methodology

Data Source:

telephone interviews

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: